Dear Colleagues: http://bit.ly/MuseumSurvey I’m interested in learning how other museums and cultural institutions are engaging their communities through social media technologies. Are you? Help me gather benchmark data by completing this survey about what types of social media are being used by museums, how much time is spent on it and who in the organization […]

On February 17, 2009, Randal Rust, a consultant with R Squared Communications, stated on the Small Museums listserv: “Right now, I am putting money into research and development that will hopefully result in low-cost options for small museums and historical societies to better make use of the web.” How much are small museums willing to spend […]

The October issue of the Fridley Historical Society’s newsletter, the Record, has some interesting comments from past president Robert Christenson. After visitors to the Fridley History Center who had just attended a Hayes Elementary School event, Robert marveled how blessed Fridley was to have a community history museum. “But are we really using this valuable […]